The latest Boeing and aerospace news, including updates about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, 747-8 and 737, Airbus A380 and A350, the anticipated Boeing 797 and Boeing jobs and layoffs

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It’s been a memorable year for those of us who are fortunate to cover Boeing, Airbus and aerospace, highlighted by repeated delays on the 787, the Boeing strike and an airline industry crisis that started with record-high fuel prices and now the global economic meltdown.
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Airbus A320 with blended winglets. Photo from Airbus Airbus announced Wednesday it has started test flight of blended winglets on an A320. First flight was Dec. 17. The winglets from Seattle-based Aviation Partners have become common on Boeing 737s. They are offered as a factory option for next generation 737s, and as a retrofit for older 737s.
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Japanese media reported that one of that country’s Boeing 767 tankers was unable to retract its refueling boom while on a flight Friday afternoon and made an emergency landing at the ASDF’s Gifu Air Base in Gifu Prefecture about three hours later.
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I’m in Geneva, Switzerland, where the International Air Transport Association had its annual media briefing Tuesday on the state of the global airline industry. It’s not a pretty picture, which as we already know will make for tough times for Boeing next year.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the troubled 787 program will be delayed by at least six more months, which would push the first deliveries into the summer of 2010 — more than two years late.
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In what is a pretty remarkable read, Airbus has crafted a candid, internal analysis of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, using intelligence that in part apparently came from confidential Boeing documents and/or sources. (Does Airbus have spies operating within Boeing?)
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In September 2007, just weeks before I was among the lucky passengers on the first Singapore Airlines A380 revenue flight from Singapore to Sydney, Randy Tinseth, Boeing’s vice president of marketing for commercial airplanes, wrote in his blog that the cabin of the big Airbus plane might prove to be too quiet.
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